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European Commission : CORDIS : Projects and Results : Creating an Alternative umma: Clerical Authority and Religio-political Mobilisation in Transnational Shii Islam

European Commission

The Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham seeks to appoint 1 Post-doctoral Research Fellow and to award 2 PhD studentships to work on the ERC-funded project ‘Creating an Alternative umma: Clerical Authority and Religio-political Mobilisation in Transnational Shii Islam (ALTERUMMA)’ project, led by Professor Oliver Scharbrodt. This interdisciplinary project investigates the transformation of Shii Islam in the Middle East and Europe since the 1950s. The project begins in January 2018 and will in the course of its five-year duration include four post-doctoral researchers and three PhD students.

The Research Fellow and PhD students will work on the first thematic area of the project which begins in January 2018. As part of this thematic area, the various ways in which Shii clerical authorities in Iran and Iraq have positioned themselves towards the modern nation-state are explored.

– The research fellow will investigate the role of senior clerical figures in Iran in the lead-up to the Islamic Revolution in 1979. For more information, see: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BDS780/research-fellow/

– One PhD student will work on how the clerical establishment in Najaf has intervened in and positioned itself towards post-2003 Iraqi sectarian politics and responded to the sectarianisation of Middle Eastern geopolitics. For more information, see: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BDE834/phd-studentship-iraqi-clerics-and-the-state-after-2003/

– The other PhD student will work on the position of current clerical authorities in Iran towards the Islamic Republic and its underpinning ideology and their religio-political interventions in a political system that fuses clerical and political authority. For more information, see: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BDE835/phd-studentship-iranian-clerics-and-the-state-in-post-revolutionary-iran/

Satpanthī Khoja-s to Shīʿa Imāmī Ismāʿīlī ṬarīqaThe Construction of Religious Identity of the Khoja-s Imāmī Ismāʿīlī of South Asia ” Brill Online

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conference – alhikmah institute

Potentials of Religious and Cultural Centers in Europe to Promote Positive Interaction Impacts of Islam and Muslims on Europe Contributions of Muslim Emigrants in European Countries Potentials of Islamic Teachings for the Establishment of Peace and Security in Europe Morality and Spirituality in Islam and its Role in Positive Interaction

Hartford Seminary

This course provides a historical study of the development of Shiʿi Islam against the backdrop of key events such the succession crisis and Occultation ( Ghayba), and the formation of Shiʿi states such as the Buwayhids, Safavids, Qajars and Modern Iran.

Africa Federation Archives – Ithna-Asheri Students’ Union of East Africa at Aligarh Muslim University, India -1965 to 1974

Africa Federation Archives – Ithna-Asheri Students’ Union of East Africa at Aligarh Muslim University, India – 1965 to 1974 – French (PDF, 620KB)

Salvation and Suffering in Ottoman Stories of the Prophets

Introduction: salvation history and stories of the prophets The Islamic genre of the stories of the prophets (qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ) derives from narrative exegesis of the various references to biblical and Arabian prophets in the Qurʾān.

Includes a discussion of Fuẓūlī Baghdādī (d. 963/1556).

Africa Federation

Africa Federation Archives – Haji Fazul Cassam Chenai – The Early Settlers of Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri in Madagascar Haji Fazul Cassam Chenai was born in Surat, India on 15th July 1877. Since his…

The Evolution of Khojā identity in South Asia – A literature review | Parpia | Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung

The Evolution of Khojā identity in South Asia – A literature review

Buddha or Yūdhāsaf?

Images of the Hidden Imām in al-Ṣadūq’s Kamāl al-dīn Introduction This paper presents a study of one of the earliest Twelver Shi’i works on the occultation of the Twelfth Imām, Kamāl al-dīn wa-tamām al-niʿmah (“The Perfection of Religion and the Completion of Blessing,” hereafter Kamāl al-dīn) by Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b.

Licit Magic: The Life and Letters of al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād (d. 385/995)

Biographical note Maurice A. Pomerantz, Ph.D. (2010), University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Literature at New York University, Abu Dhabi. He is the editor of The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning (Brill, 2016).